Curriculum Vitae

Hemant Jagatrao Patil

PBC Post-doctoral fellow
Agricultural Research Organization
Volcani Center, Israel
Mob. No. +91 9423934907 (India)
+972 58 421 3471 (Israel)
E-mail : hemantpatil8311@gmail.com
Academic qualification:
Level
B.Sc.
(Microbiology)
M.Sc.
(Microbiology)

Ph.D.
(Microbiology)

University/

Year of

Institute

Passing

NMU, India

2004

NMU, India

NMU and
NBAIM,

2012

India

Post-doctoral
Research

2006

ARO, Israel

(Microbiology)

20152017

Advisor/Mentor

NA

Prof. S. B.
Chincholkar

Dr. Bhushan L.
Chaudhari

Division/

First (68%)

Dr. Dror Minz

NA
Studies on IAA and Phosphate

First (63%) Solubilization by Siderophorogenic

Plant Growth Promoters
Exploring Antagonistic
Awarded

Actinomycetes Against Rhizoctonia

solani
Studies on Impact of Antibiotic Use

Dr. Eddie Cytryn

and

Title/study

status

Ongoing

in Aquaculture, on Antibiotic
Resistance and Microbial
Community Dynamics

NMU: North Maharashtra University; NBAIM: National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms; ARO:
Agricultural Research Organization

Research/ Teaching experience:

Jan 2015 to present
Postdoctoral research fellow, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center, Israel: Determining
impact of antibiotics used in aquaculture on antibiotic resistance development in the bacterial community
and its spread to other bacteria in the fish pond through mobile genetic elements.
Jul 2012 to Nov 2014 (29 Months)
Assistant Professor (Microbiology) and then Head Academic Affairs, Rai University, Ahmedabad,
Gujrat, India, which brought experience of teaching microbiology and related subjects as well as being
head, lead the group of around 80 faculty members.
Feb 2012 to Jun 2012 (05 Months)

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Research Associate, Sardar Patel Renewable Energy Research Institute, Anand, Gujrat, India: Developing
an Integrated Process Technology for Conversion of Crop Residues into Ethanol and Methane for use as
Transport Fuels.
Aug 2006- Aug 2010 (4 Yrs)
Senior Research Fellow (during doctoral studies), ICAR (Indian Council of Agricultural Research) funded
Research project Application of Microorganisms in Agricultural and Allied Sectors (AMAAS)
Biocontrol management and plant growth enhancement using rhizospheric actinomycetes in tomato crop,
at National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms (NBAIM), Mau, UP, India.
Research Methods and Scientific techniques (proficient in)
Microbial Isolation and Characterization
Bioinformatics including BLAST (command line), QIIME, MOTHUR, MEGAN and MEGA platforms
Compound and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)
RT-PCR
Plasmid Extraction and Cloning
HPLC and LCMSMS
Honor/Awards
PBC Post-doctoral Research Fellowship, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center, Israel
(2015-17)
ICAR-Senior Research Fellowship (project) at National Bureau of Agriculturally Important
Microorganisms, India (2006-2010)
National Training
Molecular and Serological Detection of Plant Viruses at NBAIM (Mar 2008)
Microbial Chemical Taxonomy and Polyphasic Approaches at (Sep 2008)
Molecular Approaches for Identification and Characterization of Actinomycetes at NBAIM (Dec
2009)
Membership of Professional Societies
Life member of Biotechnological Research Society of India (BRSI)
Life member of Society of Agriculturally Important Microbial Genetic Resources (SAIMGR), India
Annual member of American Society of Microbiology (ASM) 2010, ID: 56486418, Div. J
Annual member of Israel Society of Microbiology (ISM) for the year 2016-2017

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List of Publications
Research articles:
1. Patil, H.J., Benet, A., Naor, A., Smirnov, M., Ofek, T., Nasser, A., Minz, D. And Cytryn, E., 2016.
Evidence of increased antibiotic resistance in phylogenetically-diverse Aeromonas isolates from semiintensive fish ponds treated with antibiotics. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7:1875 (DOI:
10.3389/fmicb.2016. 01875)
2. Patil, H.J., Srivastava, A.K., Singh, D.P., Chaudhari, B.L., Arora, D.K., 2011. Actinomycetes mediated
biochemical responses in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) enhances bioprotection against Rhizoctonia
solani. Crop protection. 30: 1269-1273
3. Ahire, J.J., Mokashe, N.U., Patil, H.J., Chaudhari, B.L., 2011. Antioxidative potential of folate
producing probiotic Lactobacillus helveticus CD6. J. Food Sci. Technol. 50:2634
4. Patil, H.J., Srivastava, A.K., Kumar, S., Chaudhari, B.L., Arora, D.K., 2010. Selective isolation,
evaluation and characterization of antagonistic actinomycetes against Rhizoctonia solani. World J.
Microbiol. Biotechnol. 26: 2163-2170
5. Patil, H.J., Marman, S., Ashhab, A., Sela, N., Sher, D., Green, S., Minz, D. And Cytryn, E.
(Communicated) Temporal Shifts in Microbial Community Dynamics in Prophylactically Fed Intensive
Freshwater Aquaculture System. (Journal name will be disclosed after confirmed acceptance; IF: ~5)
6. Two articles are in the pipeline (one each as first and contributory author)
Book chapters:
1. Patil H.J., and Solanki M.K. (2016) Microbial inoculant: modern era of fertilizers and pesticides. In
Microbial Inoculants in Sustainable Agricultural Productivity. Springer India. ISBN 978-81-3222645-1, p. 31943.
2. Patil, H.J., and Solanki, M.K. (2016). Molecular Prospecting: Advancement in Diagnosis and Control
of Rhizoctonia solani Diseases in Plants. In Current Trends in Plant Disease Diagnostics and
Management Practices. Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-319-27310-5 (Vol. 1) p. 16585.
3. Singh, D.P., Patil, H.J., Prabha, R. and Yandigeri, M.S. (2016). Actinomycetes as potential plant
growth promoting microbial communities. In Crop Improvement through Microbial Biotechnology.
Elsevier, USA. (In press).
4. Patil, H.J. and Chaudhari, B.L. (2012). Agricultural Implications of Actinomycetes. In Environment
and Biotechnology. Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany. ISBN 978-3-659-15457-7, p. 60-88.
Symposia/abstract:
1. Patil H.J. and Cytryn E. Antibiotic resistance across phylogenetically-diverse Aeromonas isolates
from an extensive aquaculture ecosystem. Paper presented in annual meeting of Israel Society of
Microbiology held at Bar-Ilan University, Israel (2016).
2. Patil H.J. and Cytryn E. Antibiotic resistance dynamics in freshwater aquaculture microbiomes.
Paper presented in International Conference of Microbial Eco-genomics in Agriculture: BARD
workshop held at Israel (2015).
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3. Patil H.J., Srivastava, A.K., Singh, D.P., Chaudhari, B.L. Determining biochemical changes following
antagonistic Streptomyces treatments in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) and detection of biosynthetic
gene sequences. Paper presented in National Conference on Biotechnology for All (NCBFA) held at
NMU, India (2010).
Research work Summary
Post doctoral research:
Presently I am conducting postdoctoral research at the Volcani Center, Agricultural Research
Organization (Israel). My research aims to determine the impact of antibiotic use in aquaculture, on
antibiotic resistance and microbial community composition in the freshwater aquaculture systems, and
assess dissemination of antibiotic resistance through mobile genetic elements such as plasmids and
integrons. I developed an empirical approach to determine qualitative as well as quantitative estimation
antibiotic concentrations in the water column using LC-MS/MS, and applied assays for qualitative and
quantitative estimation of antibiotic resistance genes using RT-qPCR.
Currently, I am working on determining the microbiomes and metagenomes of aquaculture samples
using advanced NGS-tools coupled to bioinformatic analyses using QIIME, mothur and MEGAN
pipelines. Furthermore, I am assessing the mobilome of Aeromonas isolates to ascertain the potential of
antibiotic resistance plasmids to transfer to related and unrelated bacteria.. To date, the results of this
study demonstrate the direct correlation between antibiotic use and antibiotic resistance in bacteria
(Patil et al., 2016).
Doctoral research:
During my doctoral research at the National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms, India,
I developed the multi-potential microbial consortia having biocontrol, PGP as well as plant defense
inducing attributes against Rhizoctonia solani. I have performed the field assays in greenhouse
conditions with promising strains and confirmed their role in disease suppression, plant growth
promotion as well as plant defense induction in the tomato crop.
In this study, I have isolated actinomycetes strains from the rhizospheric soil of highly fertile IndoGangetic Plains (IGP) of India using bating bag technique, where dead fungal mycelia was used as bait
(Patil et al., 2010). The plant defense induction potential of actinomycetes strains was observed
synergistically beneficial to reduce disease symptoms in tomato crop (Patil, et al., 2011), which assures
a promising alternate for commercially available plant disease control agent.
Post graduate research:
In my masters dissertation at North Maharashtra University (India), I worked with siderophorogenic
bacteria isolated from rhizospheric soil, in view of screening for other plant growth enhancing
attributes. For this, I considered phosphate solubilization and indoleacetic acid (IAA) producing
potential, which can synergistically enhance plant growth along with siderophorogenic potential.
Further, potential isolates were explored at pot experiment under hydroponic conditions. This study has
resulted potential bacterial strains having multiple plant growth promoting potential, determined at
hydroponic pot experiment and can be tested further at field level.
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Referees:
Dr. Eddie Cytryn (Post-doc mentor)
Scientist, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center, Ministry of Agriculture
Israel
Phone No. : +972-(0)3-968-3767
Fax. No.
E-mail:

: +972-(0)3-960-4017
eddie@agri.gov.il

Dr. Anil Kumar Saxena

Director, National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms (ICAR)
Mau 275 101 (U.P.), India
Phone No. : +91-547-2530388
Fax. No. : +91-547-2530358
E-mail: saxena461@yahoo.com

Dr. Dhananjay Pratap Singh

Senior Scientist (NAAS associate)
National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms (ICAR)
Mau 275 101 (U.P.), India
Phone No. : +91-547-2530388
Fax. No.

: +91-547-2530358

E-mail: dpsfarm@rediffmail.com

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